Statement of Work (SOW) Gap Analysis: We analyze the SOW and determine whether your company has any serious gaps or vulnerabilities and provide suggestions on how to mitigate these immediately.

Competitive Assessment: Key Solutions identifies a set of key characteristics of a winning bidder; this is called the Notional Winner Profile. Using this as a benchmark, we provide a Competitive Assessment—a quantitative assessment of your company and your competitors, respective strengths and weaknesses, and actions for enhancing your competitive position.

Third Party Performance Assessment: A key part of strategy is understanding the customer’s perception of incumbent performance. Key Solutions conducts independent, third-party, incumbent assessments to gather meaningful and qualitative information regarding the level of customer satisfaction with a contractor’s performance.

Win Strategy: Key Solutions develops a win strategy using the results of the Competitive Assessment to articulate how your company intends to win the contract. The Win Strategy explains the elements that will enable your company to best leverage its strengths and mitigate its weaknesses. The Win Strategy may include but not be limited to:

Vision Statement

Teaming and subcontractor support

Business Model

Pricing Support

Key Personnel Qualifications

Offer Design to Win: The Offer Design converts the Win Strategy into a set of identified approaches that describe what your company will offer in response to the customer’s requirements. It sets forth the compelling reasons for the selection of your company as the winner of the contract. The Offer Design may include:

Quantifiable results

Promises and Commitments

Discriminators/Selling Points

Sixty Second Win Message

Teaming/Subcontractor Support: We help firms gain a competitive edge by identifying the right teaming candidates and forming effective alliances with other qualified companies that will emphasize strengths and/or offset weaknesses.

Communications Plan: An effective, tailored communications plan is designed to ensure that key decision-makers are fully aware of your company’s capabilities and commitment to the program Some elements of a communications plan are:

Customer Contact Plan

Media Plan

Identity Materials and Brochures

Community Relations and Stakeholder Strategy

Black Hat Reviews: Key Solutions plays the role of a determined competitor and forecasts exactly how the competitor will seek to defeat you. This gives your firm crucial competitor insight and helps generate approaches for win strategies.